Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-19
DAKOTA.


enclosed.
Wld geese are plentiful In the region OF
Wateftown.
A Danish church was dedicated last Sunday
at Ysukton.
saism IA putting In q complete system OF
water works.
The hsrahalltown. lows, band visited Sioux
Falls Monday.
Union county raised this year 2,5OO,0 900
bushels Of corn.
Tnere we're 100 women at the polls In Sioux
Falls Tuesday.
The Cascade mill at Sioux Falls Is running
night and day.
The electric light house at Aberdeen is
nearly completed.
Twenty-Five cents a bushel is raid for new
corn at K X Point.
Aberdeen will be Represented ia the new
Northwestern league.
The territorial Farmesr' alliance meets at
Huron December 13.
The legislature is TO be asked TO grant Gro.
ton a new city charter.
Prairie fires are doing considerable damage
IN the vicinity OF Steele.
shipped from Alexandria.
The band boys at YtImilllon will give q
masquerade ball November "a.
The masonic fraternity at Arlington Will
give a grand ball on the Gath.
The wheat blockade at Arlington has been
removed, at least temporarily.
The value OF the school property Of the
territory is about 90, COO, coo.
The dfth story Of the new $780, COO hotel at
Watertown 4, nearly completed.
A number OF citizens near Dickinson Lave
lost all their hay by prairie fires.
The Dakota mills, at Elk Point, VIII soon
be ready to operation.
Gen. w. II. II. Beadle delivered several lee
tures In central Dakota upon division.
Mitchell has ~reorRanized its musical So
ciety under the leadership OF Prof. Kra'z.
The Aouring mill at Arlington has a double
force and is kept running night and day.
Mrs. Nellie c. Hall, territorial superintend-
ent Of hygiene, lectured ut Huron last week.
The aggregate taxes OF Aberdeen for the
present fiscal year will amount to about $780,
coo.
John Collins, a contractor or the Duluth
road died at Sioux Falls, Tuesday OF APO.
plexy.
Bismarck petitions against the removal OF
the office If commissioner Of immigration to
Pierre.
Over az, Oc0 worth of tickets were sold for
the opening of the opera house at Water
town.
A stock company to be known as the War
ner Elevator company has been organized at
Warner.
Five glsndered horses near Lisbon were
recently ordered killed by he territorial vet
erinarian.
The new memorial hall Of Phil Kesrney post
g. A. r. ut Ysnkton was dedicated Wednes-
day evening.
Treasurer Raymond has advertised the sale
OF eight Northern Pacific locomo ives to sat
isfy the gross earnings tsx due the territory
August Is. The sale takes place December
g, unless the company replevin or emf in.
A prairie fire fifteen to twenty mlles east Of
Sioux Falls, In the vicinity OF hardwood,
has destroyed over 800 tons of hay and n
number of buildings. At last reports the
flames were travelling rapidly toward Rock
Rapids.
The Black Hills produce the two wonderful
curioeities Of the century. They belong to the
burglar, or tramp, species, and are willing TO
make efiisvit to the fact that they were bora
In America, hut their mother ne yer was 1 i
this country.
j. w. Raymond, OF Bismarck, territorial
treasurer, has appointed E. c.. Eddy, OF Fargo,
deputy treasurer. 1t is understood that this
Is especially In reference to the care OF the
property recently distrained Of tse Northern
Pacific railroad
w. A. Carver, John Jane and Il. Dehsrt, Of
Blunt, have been arrested for taking wood
from the reservation. Seven have been ar.
rested In the past ten days on that charge.
The INDIANS arc threatening and trouble Is
ex expected By the people Of Blunt. Some have
armed themselves.
Count Frenfaulli, Of Italy, who has been
staying In Columbia a short time, Is under
commission Of the Italian government 10 visi:
the schools snd examine into the educational
system OF the United Seates. He Is especially
called to Columbia by reason of his wife's real
estate interests there.
According TO Commissioner McClure's ad-
vance sheet, the total area Of the territory is
90, 500 $50 acres. The land subject to entry is
%, :il,445 acres; contained In Indian reservs-
tons, &c, S47, los acres; Northern Pacific land
grant, 7,OVO, 600 acres: school lands, 5000, oG0
acres; area disposed OF, IS 9S7, $50 acres.
The Aberdeen, Bismarck and Northwestern
railroad is now graded into Bismarck, andthe
road has decided to continue its grade north
to the ccal fields Of Mclean county, forty-Hve
miles above Bismarck. A large company has
been organized for the development Of the
immense veins Of coal In that region.
A patriotic landlsdy has opened a boarding
house a. Washington and named IL the Da-
kota house. 1t will be voted q blessing II she
can corral all territorial visitors who come to
the capital, fOr then the correspondents Will
know where to find them. She may be able to
do this II she will Invent o epecial brand OF
Dakota hash.
1t is charged by papers in the vicinity OF the
indemnity lands that land attorneys were
largely responsible for the rush to the i'm
proved farms. These gentlemen went over
the region preaching to the uusophisticated
the doctrine of cultivated fM ms for those who
would take them. all for the fee of E25. One